How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
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Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."
Africa doesn’t care about its women
I have the privilege to fight, argue or board a plane when I feel like I've had enough. The vast majority of women on the continent do not have that option.
I have rarely seen a people pray as much as Haitians do
The legacies of colonialism and the African slave trade on religious practices in the African diaspora.
The forgotten kingdom
The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.
Everything must fall
Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.
Only the soil can free us
Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.
Kinshasa headache
The harsh realities of resistance for a new generation in Joseph Kabila’s Congo.
The ethics of political art
A critical review of Swiss theatre director Milo Rau’s multi-media project, "Congo Tribunal,” about the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mutual Entanglements
The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
The Black Mediterranean and the limits of liberal solidarity
The documentary film, 'When Paul came over the sea' (2017) is an important summary of the conditions and motives behind forced displacement of African migrants
A story of love in the time of the constitution
The relationship of South African former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela with her daughter is a perfect metaphor for the state of the country's politics.
Everything happening to you is a wound
In a new film, five young Zulu women set off on a trek in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino poachers.
This is Congo
The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.
Imagining the South African Indian
How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?
An overripe fruit will eventually fall off the tree
Artists played central roles in the protest movement that ended dictatorship in Burkina Faso.
You strike a woman, you strike a rock
What is it like to be a woman leader in South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters?
The values of David Goldblatt
Inseparable from the photographic images of world-renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, are values. Values, like
By the light of the arrivals gate
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.